Especially in books and films, foster homes and other caring place for children tend to be vilified. This book didn’t disappointment me and made me think about more things than just a young girl who loses her mother. How to Make Friends with the Dark was my first novel by Kathleen Glasgow and I have to admit, I’m extremely impressed. You see, because so many bad things happened to our main character Tiger, it was really hard for me to speed through the story. After not sleeping and not eating for some time, I’ve decided that all I can do now is to continue living my life well and to do all the things I want to while holding the thoughts and memories of her close.

She was very abrasive and I felt strange because I had to remind myself that I should feel bad for her. Kathleen Glasgow is the author of the internationally bestselling novels Girl in Pieces, How to Make Friends with the Dark, and You'd Be Home Now. She made sure I had manners, greeted people, said my farewells, did my chores and handled all my responsibilities. In Kathryn Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark, 16-year-old Tiger learns that her mother is dead, and almost equally upsetting, she can't even go somewhere familiar to stay while she figures out how to adjust to being an orphan; with no known father or other relatives, she is relegated to the legal responsibility of the state of Arizona and uprooted from the life and the people she knew. The story of an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake, and one girl’s emotional battle for clarity and forgiveness.Thank you to Netgalley, Delacorte Press, and Children's Random House for supplying me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Tiger Tolliver is so vulnerable and real, you'll want to turn your porch light on and have the spare room ready for her. The story of one girl's quest for clarity and forgiveness after an awful, universe-gone-mad-mistake. i don’t have any personal experiences whatsoever, but the fosters is one of my favorite shows of all time which deals with foster families and how much of a mess the american foster care system is. I’d say when it was at its best, it was most of the first half and the second foster home she was in.

The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life.The story talks about grief, friendships, family relationships, foster care and all kinds of domestic violence. Like, all the author had to do was remove that extra quotation mark at the end of the first paragraph. Tiger, Cake, and Thaddeus (and Mae-Lynn, and Shayna, and Lupe, and LaLa, and Sarah, and Leonard, and June .

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There are too many people try to fight against their dark sides, suffer from dysfunctional family relationships, heal from losing someone. The introduction of Lupe Hidalgo was probably the first thing in this that I genuinely didn't like, because she felt extremely cliche and unrealistic, especially with the other high schooler's reaction to her. Tiger's mother has always been her whole world, but now she's sixteen her mother's control over everything in her life is suffocating. Paedyn Gray witnessed the king kill her father five years ago, and she’s been thieving and sleeping rough ever since, all while faking Psychic abilities.Some things in the end chapters had me almost outright bawling in the breakroom and smiling a little at one particular happening. My grandmother had a garden full of plants, a house filled with fishes and turtles and she loved hosting. How to Make Friends with the Dark takes you on a wild ride from a normal school day with the hopes of kissing your crush to literally the worst moment for anyone to go through: identifying your mother's body in a morgue. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder.

There is no romance in this young adult contemporary, so be aware of that (some readers will be happy about it I guess)! These elements, which are not sufficiently addressed, combined with the use of ableist language, cannot be erased by any amount of romantic banter. Glasgow uses Tiger's gaze to look not only inward at her own grief, but through a wider lens to account for other kinds of grief, loss and pain too. This story hauls you into its heart to live the pain in all its careening, messy, and miraculous glory. In How to Make Friends with the Dark, Kathleen Glasgow's prose begs and pleads and grasps at the light, like a prayer.the ending was well rounded and all, but the 100 or so pages before the resolution were really dull and could’ve been cut so much shorter to not bore the reader to death.